The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-09-01
PlTH AND POINT.

Go slow, this hot weather. and spare
the hearse horses. -Syracnse Staxd-
ard.
The Texas rangers will not have to
carry spring water in their canteens.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
When 1t is known that . man will
die game he should not be killed out OF
season. --New Orleans Picayuae.
The study of chemistry Is an interest
ing thing. but it ought not to break SO
many windows. - Cincinnati Enquirer.
Many an employer. truly says an
exchange, would accept term Us labor
leader at tho regular salary. -Albany
argus.
The prohibition amendment in Texas
was defeated by nearly 100. 900 votes.
Texas puts about as little prohibition
in its politics US water in its whisky
Chicago Times.
Prince Ferdinand continues to be as
eager to mount the Bulgarian throne
as the small boy to win the prize for
riding the trick mule at the circus.
Buffalo Erpress.
What other American besides Buffalo
Bill has taken the Princess of Wales
out ridingP Alas! none. Bills show
ought to bring seventy five cents at the
door after this. Chicago Ledger.
Three million pounds of feathers are
used every year in America for bed
ding purposes. Follows who sleep on
clearinghouse pillows can't imagine
where they 60 to.-Baston Globe.
If woman might wear her new bon
net all over her there would be COM
plete happiness; but it is inevitable that
she must 60 around in the dress that
she isn't fit to be seen in.--Judge.
A district messenger boy having been
sent from New York to London. Prot.
Proctor will please furnish some inter-
esting estimates as to the probable
time of his return. - Chicago Herald.
This summer the Concord philoso-
pliers are wrestling with the problem.
'.Do we exist, or only think SOP"
They word the question little dit.
ferently, but that is what it means
Omaha World.
1t would be an instructive exhibit to
place model of the Atlanta in the ma
t.onal museum at Washington. The
citizens of 1850 could then see the ter
rible throes by which IN American
navy was born. Francisco CAron-
icle.
A woman down in Maine has col
lection of more than 800 kinds OF can
dy, and she is considered great bless
ing to the town in which she lives. All
the flies in the village collect about her
house and stay there the season through.
boston Transcript.
The days of bastiles have not yet
gone-far from it. A Pennsylvania
editor, thrown into Jail for libel. is be-
ing devoured by bed-bugs. His suffer-
ings are more intense from the fact that
he has never lived in hotels or board
ing ouses.-Louiscille Courier-Jou,nal.
IAN Omaha poetess has been arrest
ed for writing some verses on dead
child" The punishment awarded is
not stated, but it should be ninety-nine
per cent lighter than if she had writ
ten some verses on live child. The
verses couldn't hurt a dead child. -
NorristoWn Herald.
Statistics enable us to discover many
funny things. 1t has been figured out
that woman is surer of living than a
man as long as she remains single or
married, but that widows are more
likely to die than widowers. Perhaps
that is the reason why most widows
hustle to get married again. Buffalo
Express.
what barbarous pastime base ball
must be-" remarked a Mortified old
lady who was reading a newspaper &C.
count of contest between the Chica-
COS and Detroits. This paper says
Williamson died on second base, and
yet see they went on and finished the
game just as if nothing had happened. F"
Chicago Tribune.
1t was at midnight and an impassion-
ed lover in an uptown drawing room
kneeled at the feet of his hearts choice
and exclaimed: "Gertie, will do any
thing IN this world to make you hap
py." Do you mean it, George?" Il do,
l do, darling" "Then for heavens
sake 60 home and let me go to bed."--
New Orleans Picayune
Late one evening a doctor received a
note from couple of fellow practi.
TONERS: pray step across to the club;
we are one short for game of cards. "
Emile, dear" he then said to his
wife, Il am called away again. II
appears to be very serious case fol
there are two doctors already in at
tendance. detroit Free Press.
The sea serpent seen on Lake Cham
plain has but one head and was only
seventy five feet long. Such snake as
that won't draw. The best drawing ses
snakes are about $50 feet, and wher
swimming carry the head twenty-five
feet in the air. As the season is early
yet the liar at Lake Champlain should
correct his measurements Chicago